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Plunder piled so haphazardly (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

despoil

'plunder' is the definition.
(I know that plunder can be written as despoil)

'piled so haphazardly' is the wordplay.
'haphazardly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'piled'+'so'='piledso'
'piledso' with letters rearranged gives 'DESPOIL'.

(Other definitions for despoil that I've seen before include "sack" , "strip" , "Plunder (a place)" , "Plunder - I sloped (anag)" , "Steal from (a place)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph and The Globe and Mail.
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